The Orix Buffaloes snapped their nine-game losing streak on Sunday, pinch hitter Yuki Miyazaki driving in the go-ahead run with a seventh-inning infield single in a 2-1 comeback win over the Chiba Lotte Marines.
The Buffaloes, who last won on May 16, were poised to be swept by the Pacific League cellar dwellers after Katsuya Kakunaka's first-inning RBI single put Lotte in front.
Orix starter Taisuke Yamaoka (1-4) pitched his way out of two-out, two-on jams in the second and sixth innings. Kenya Wakatsuki's one-out, seventh-inning RBI double off the Marines' Ryota Sekiya (0-1) tied it at Zozo Marine Stadium.